'A Box from Home' is topic for Civil War Roundtable

CHAMBERSBURG — The Cumberland Valley Civil War Roundtable will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 8, in the community room of the Franklin Street Fire Station, 70 N. Franklin St.

The evening’s presentation will be “A Box From Home” by Kevin Bender.

Drawing heavily on period letters and diaries, including many by soldiers from south-central Pennsylvania, Bender will discuss how a box from the homefront was prepared, what it contained, and how it served a source of goods that supplemented what was issued by the Army or provided things that a soldier was unable to purchase.